Erich Maria Remarque Summary

Biography EssayIt is sometimes claimed that next to the Bible, Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; translated as All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929) has sold more copies than any... Read more

In the first chapter of the classic World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front, four German soldiers at the front are disconsolate after having visited one of their friends, who is dying in a fi... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Church Surely everyone, again and again, has asked himself with misgiving and horror what is this conspiracy of silence maintained Jerry Bauerby the men who returned from the... Read more

Critical Essay by Quentin Reynolds "Spark of Life" is a grim, agonizing but terribly wonderful story of what happened to the political and religious nonconformists in Hitler's Ger... Read more

Critical Essay by Melvin Maddocks On its lacquered surface, Shadows in Paradise shows all the familiar Remarque gloss. There is the typically commercial title, second only to Heaven Has No Favorites. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael O'malley The way [Andrew] Wyeth paints: no thunder in his picture, just a modulation of blues to make you see the sky's a bit strange and, like a letter shoved ... Read more

Critical Essay by The New York Times Book Review The world has gained a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. Of that there can be no longer any question. On the two themes which he has thus far chose... Read more